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Studied At Paris In 1850: RESZKE, Jean de, Polish opera singer: brother of Edouard de Reszke (q.v.) : b. Warsaw, 1850; d. 1925. He completed a law course at the Warsaw University; but, having been surrounded by a musical atmosphere in his home, and having sung as a boy in the cathedral, he decided upon singing as a career. He studied with Ciaffei and Cologni in Italy and made his debut in Venice in 1874 as Alfonso in La Favorita. In the two following years he appeared in London and Paris. Hitherto he had sung baritone roles, but in 1876 he retired to cultivate his natural voice whose register was that of a tenor.
He taught music in New York in 1844-1845; studied at Paris in 1850, and afterward was chiefly engaged in composition. From 1859 he was senior member of the Chicago music publishing firm, Root & Cady. Among his many successes are the songs Rosalie, the Prairie Flower; The Battle Cry of Freedom; Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys Are Marching; Jvst Before the Battle, Mother; the quartet, There's Music in the Air, and the cantatas The Flower Queen (1851) and The Haymakers (1857).
ROBERTS, Howard, American sculptor: b. Philadelphia, April 9, 1843; d. Paris, April 19, 1WO. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1866 went to Paris where he studied under Dumont and Gumery at the ficole des Beaux-Arts. Returning to Philadelphia in 1871 he established his studio there. During a second sojourn in Paris (1873-1876) he produced La Premiere Pose which earned him "iie of the three medals awarded to American sculptors at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Other works of note are his statue "I Robert Fulton for the Rotunda of the National Capitol, Hypatia and Eleanor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Hester Prynne. |
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